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2024 — The Symbiotic Relation of Milkweed Fibre and Environmental Art EducationAbstract
Through a methodology of research-creation, this thesis explains how an environmental practice consisting of growing, foraging, and harvesting indigenous plants of North America, primarily milkweed, can translate into an environmental art education within the classroom. It describes the path an art educator and textile artist walked to expose readers to elements of the outdoors, and suggests paths to take to proactively embody environmental practices. It asks: “How can she establish a sustaining environmental art education?’’ With themes of Canadian identity, epistemology, reciprocity, deep ecology, and environmental conservatism, the artist and educator walks the readers through steps of papermaking with milkweed … Read more